Been getting my SW fix from talking about space bird people for the Adventurers Journal, so I haven't been to the Pit in a while.

On the original question, the hyperspace jumps and gravity wells thing was really unexpected. I think both stories could have been told (Episode VII and VIII) without messing with the established "rules". Along with that is the "hyperspace jump ram attack". Good thing it was in a movie, because if it was a game it just became broken.

What of the mods Rogue one made, where someone can jump inside a planet's atmosphere/grav well.?_________________It's Not who you kill, but how they die!
You cannot dodge it if you do not know it is coming, and you cannot hit it if you do not know its there.

Indeed D6's version of bowcaster needs some update.
In D20's version bowcaster has more punch than DL-44. It looks like this for damage value:
Blaster DL-18 - 3d6
Blaster DL-44 - 3d8
Bowcaster - 3d10

So in D6 it should be like 6D with 1 m radius area damage (Han taking out 2 troopers with one shot on Takodana)

Wow. You've either been looking at the conversion charts I've made or you've done your own sets of math and arrived at a similar conclusion. Either way, sounds about right to me if you're looking at the d20___________________________________________________
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Indeed D6's version of bowcaster needs some update.
In D20's version bowcaster has more punch than DL-44. It looks like this for damage value:
Blaster DL-18 - 3d6
Blaster DL-44 - 3d8
Bowcaster - 3d10

So in D6 it should be like 6D with 1 m radius area damage (Han taking out 2 troopers with one shot on Takodana)

Wow. You've either been looking at the conversion charts I've made or you've done your own sets of math and arrived at a similar conclusion. Either way, sounds about right to me if you're looking at the d20

I had no opportunity to check your charts (yet). Just did some comparison from the source materials d6 and d20.

In d20 this damage is on the level of heavy repeating blaster. Only E-web and blaster cannon have more punch - 3d12. Heavy reperating blaster has 7D but it fires only in autofire mode. Bowcaster does not, so 6D seems to be the fair damage for me.

PS. After Solo movie, DL-44 carbine mode should be introduced to the rules.

What of the mods Rogue one made, where someone can jump inside a planet's atmosphere/grav well.?

Yeah, I'm kinda struggling on what to do with that. You can say that off screen someone was frantically stripping out and bypassing safety protocols. And while that may work for a "do or die" in Rogue One, it still doesn't feel true to what's going on on screen.

Though if anyone just could make a jump to hyperspace within a gravity well, then it REALLY makes one wonder why the Rebels had to make it past the Star Destroyers in ESB. Why not lift off and then jump. Seems like a lot less risk.___________________________________________________
Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

What of the mods Rogue one made, where someone can jump inside a planet's atmosphere/grav well.?

Yeah, I'm kinda struggling on what to do with that. You can say that off screen someone was frantically stripping out and bypassing safety protocols. And while that may work for a "do or die" in Rogue One, it still doesn't feel true to what's going on on screen.

Though if anyone just could make a jump to hyperspace within a gravity well, then it REALLY makes one wonder why the Rebels had to make it past the Star Destroyers in ESB. Why not lift off and then jump. Seems like a lot less risk.

I think you guys are on the right track. I think jumping inside a gravity well and atmosphere were always possible, but always risky. Those things trigger the hyperdrive cut-out safety measures because they are gravity and mass. You have to deactivate the safety measures to do it, and the danger lies not necessarily in the immediate jump, but what might be in your path ahead after you make the jump. With the safety measures turned off, there is nothing to cut out the hyperdrive as you plow into something. So it is one of those things that can be done, but should not be done.

The Hoth system had a big asteroid field which is why the Rebels hid there, so turning off the cut-out to get past the Empire from the atmosphere could fly them right into an asteroid a split second later. The Rebels probably had a better chance escaping with the hyperdrive safety measure on and the ion canon on their side to disable star destroyers than they would have if they had disabled the cut-out and gone to lightspeed before clearing the Empire and asteroid field. In Rogue One, giant pieces of the Jedha City mesa were falling all around them so it was worth the risk of shutting off the cut-out and escaping the cataclysm they were in the middle of._________________*
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struggling on what to do with that. You can say that off screen someone was frantically stripping out and bypassing safety protocols. And while that may work for a "do or die" in Rogue One, it still doesn't feel true to what's going o
Though if anyone just could make a jump to hyperspace within a gravity well, then it REALLY makes one wonder why the Rebels had to make it past the Star Destroyers in ESB. Why not lift off and then jump. Seems like a lot less risk.

Yep. Makes Interdictors almost useless as all you need to do is just shut down the safety protocols to escape.

Yeah, I'm kinda n on screen.
struggling on what to do with that. You can say that off screen someone was frantically stripping out and bypassing safety protocols. And while that may work for a "do or die" in Rogue One, it still doesn't feel true to what's going o
Though if anyone just could make a jump to hyperspace within a gravity well, then it REALLY makes one wonder why the Rebels had to make it past the Star Destroyers in ESB. Why not lift off and then jump. Seems like a lot less risk.

Yep. Makes Interdictors almost useless as all you need to do is just shut down the safety protocols to escape.

If all you have is an Interdictor, sure. But if you have some TIE fighters out there to keep the ship from getting into a good hyperspace jump point, or to try and cripple the ship if they try, then a lot more people will become reasonable.

It may also be that the ability to cut out the safeties on your hyperdrive is something that has to be specifically enabled... like, 90% of civilian ships won't do that, and if the Empire finds that you did, they give you the imperial equivalent of a ticket and a stern talking to (i.e. impound your ship and sell you into slavery). If you're a smuggler or a rebel, for whom that's already the penalty, you might as well. If you're Joe Picolo, the pilot of the Cool Shot that does water runs to Tattooine, you probably don't bother.

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If all you have is an Interdictor, sure. But if you have some TIE fighters out there to keep the ship from getting into a good hyperspace jump point, or to try and cripple the ship if they try, then a lot more people will become reasonable.

Yes. True, if you drag the ship out of hyperspace in midjump. It has to have safefty active for unforseen dangers. Then TIEs have to be quick and precise to disable such ship. But if its before the jump, gravity generator won't help.

MrNexx wrote:

It may also be that the ability to cut out the safeties on your hyperdrive is something that has to be specifically enabled... like, 90% of civilian ships won't do that, and if the Empire finds that you did, they give you the imperial equivalent of a ticket and a stern talking to (i.e. impound your ship and sell you into slavery). If you're a smuggler or a rebel, for whom that's already the penalty, you might as well. If you're Joe Picolo, the pilot of the Cool Shot that does water runs to Tattooine, you probably don't bother.

Yes. But how many players are good citizens, obeying the laws? My guess is that team outlaw tech first modification will be single-switch for easy turn on/off the safety protocols.

My take (here) was to turn bowcasters into a broad classification of weapons - from single-shot breech loaders to selective-ammo semi-auto weapons slung under the barrel of modern blaster rifles - that all used the same type of ammunition (of which there were multiple types, depending on the intended use)._________________"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

Yes. But how many players are good citizens, obeying the laws? My guess is that team outlaw tech first modification will be single-switch for easy turn on/off the safety protocols.

WEG never discussed the possibility of a blind jump, but it must be presumed that the potential consequences are pretty severe. Several of the results on the Hyperdrive Mishap table mention near collisions that cause the hyperdrive to cut out early, so what would happen if the cut-out wasn't able to cut out?

IIRC, this has been discussed elsewhere, but I can't recall exactly where. Pretty sure it was one of Wajeb's hyperspace discussions._________________"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.